>From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>At 06:59 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Luxury, indeed! My Heathkit H-89 had SIXTEEN KILOBYTES of RAM!
>
>Hmmmmph. We used to *dream* of sixteen kilobytes of RAM.
>
>I was building banks of J-K flip-flops (sort of like an Altair 8800 on a
>starvation diet) and linking 'em together in various configurations back in
>the mid-70's.
Oh, I thought we were talking something with a keyboard and CRT!
I think I still have some RTL gates in a drawer somewhere. I think they were
rated 60 kHz, but if you sprayed them with quick-freeze, you could clock them
as high as 100 kHz!
What ever happened to PolyPaks? That's where all my grass-cutting money went as
a teen-ager... :-)
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